The St. Vitus Cathedral ( hr, Katedrala Svetog Vida) is a
Roman Catholic
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cathedral
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in
Rijeka,
Croatia
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In the Middle Ages, the Church of
St. Vitus was a small and one-sided,
Romanesque church dedicated to the patron saint and protector of Rijeka. It had a semi-circular apse behind the altar, and covered porch. With the arrival of the
Jesuits
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in Rijeka, the cathedral as we see it today was founded in 1638. First, it became the Jesuits' church. When the town of Rijeka became the center of the
diocese
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...
, and then in 1969 the center of the
archbishopric and metropolit, the representative Jesuit's Church of St. Vitus became the Cathedral of Rijeka. The structure is a
rotunda, which is unusual in this part of Europe, with elements of
Baroque and
Gothic, including fine baroque statuary inside.
The cathedral was depicted on the
reverse of the Croatian 100
kuna banknote, issued in 1993 and 2002.
Croatian National Bank
: ttp://www.hnb.hr/novcan/novcanice/e100k.htm?tsfsg=d76635298ba373001fe3d6d5b4edf145 100 kuna (1993 issue)
100 kuna
(2002 issue). – Retrieved on 24 February 2010.
Gallery
File:Rijeka093.jpg, Upper interior of the cathedral
File:Rijeka D81 4211 (26886611099).jpg, Lower interior of the cathedral
See also
* List of Jesuit sites
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References
External links
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